Quotes About Adolescence

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

Boys are so much drama.

I was a very dramatic pre-teen.

I was good at sports - basketball, football, tennis and dropped them all. At 16, I didn't care about sports anymore.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

You look at pictures of me when I was in eighth grade, and I look completely different.

I've not had a quiet morning since I had my eldest when I was 17.

When I was eleven years old, I basically looked the same as I do now.

I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought.

My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're 13 and you think you're too cool for your parents. When you're embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.

I don't know what it is that I love so much about high school, but I'm attached. The empty hallways. The teachers. They made me feel so much.

It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.

Seriously, until I was 16 or 17, I didn't care about anything other than ESPN.

Teenagers are no longer children. Consult with them. Ask their opinions. Suggest. Don't order.

She was at the age when she was starting to realize that her quirks weren't just an adolescent stage or a phase, they were who she was.

The intoxication with the theatre, with its limelight, costumes, and masks, and with its passions and conflicts, accords well with the adolescence of a man who was to act his role with an intense sense of the dramatic, and of whose life it might indeed be said that its very shape had the power and pattern of classical tragedy.

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

Eu chegara ao limiar da adolescência e ainda me ocultava entre as raízes das grandes árvores do bosque para me contar histórias. Uma agulha de pinheiro podia representar para mim um cavaleiro ou uma dama ou um bufão; movimentava-a diante de meus olhos e me exaltava em relatos intermináveis. Depois ficava com vergonha dessas fantasias e fugia.

Quizá no es el libro que hubiera querido escribir cuando adolescente, pero definitivamente sí, es el que por aquel entonces quería leer.

Twelve years old was awfully early to meet up with what inevitability does to possibility.

High schools remind me of high school, I can't help it. I graduated twenty years ago, but all it takes is the sound of the first period buzzer going off or the smell of floor wax and it is 1985 all over again, when I am skinny and self-conscious.

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left —" Don't talk to your mother like that.